MILLIONAIRES ARE ROBBERS.
A _?_._TbCRAT i S i-ECISIO-. | VANCOUVER, March 11. j iAn unprecedented statement for a millionaire has bee made by Mr. Fels, soap manufacturer of Chicago. He j -stated that Messrs. Andrew Carnegie, Pierpont Morgan, and John D. Rockefeller are all robbers, and that' their, i money was ill-gotten. ■• I 1 He admits, too that his riches were also obtained in a questionable manner, i However,' he says, he proposes to spend ! his "accursed money on the wiping out of the system which enabled him to get I it,"
When Fels was asked how he was going to rid himself of his fortune he replied that he was going to assist tbe single tax movement, which, is now spreading in Australia, America, England, and other places..
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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 69, 22 March 1910, Page 6
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